In May 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs.

At first, Samantha Siegel ascribed her fatigue to being a physician and a mother to three young children during the pandemic. The persistent cough? Likely the smoke from nearby wildfires. But then, ...

Once a clinical trial is completed, the clock is supposed to start ticking. For certain trials, researchers have one year to upload the results of their study to a public database maintained by the ...

Americans tend to express discontent during midterm congressional elections. In 1974, voters punished Republicans over the Watergate scandal, and they did so again in 2006 over the Iraq War and the ...

Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild are joined by Undark editor-in-chief Tom Zeller Jr. to talk about the show’s successes and failures, and about their ...

Far too often, the advice offered to junior scientists in my orbit boils down to one instruction: “Delete your social media account.” The advice is easy to understand. On many platforms, scientists ...